The Online Social Self: An Open Vocabulary Approach to Personality

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Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 158-169

  Kern, Margaret L ^a   Eichstaedt, Johannes C ^a   Schwartz, H Andrew ^a   Dziurzynski, Lukasz ^a   Ungar, Lyle H ^a   Stillwell, David J ^b   Kosinski, Michal ^b   Ramones, Stephanie M ^a   Seligman, Martin E P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Five personality; computational social science; interdisciplinary research; linguistic analysis; online studies

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL MEDIA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL MEDIA; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900401551     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191113514104     Document Type: Article

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